On the lifetime of plasmonic transducers in heat assisted magnetic recording

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Budaev, Bair V ^a   Bogy, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; CONTINUOUS MEDIA; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; LASER ENERGIES; MAGNETIC DISK; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PLASMONIC; SMALL SPOTS; WITHOUT BEING DAMAGED;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMONS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84865272286     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4745050     Document Type: Article

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